It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.

That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.

The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the diverse communities that have use for it.